The Power of Multiple Dispatch

Would you like to discover more about multiple dispatch and its most distinguishably features? Learn from the expert who discovered Julia itself, Avik Sengupta, the perfect way to get first hand experience.

The Julia Language's suitability for scientific computing derives from a handful of basic and consistent design decisions. Multiple dispatch lies at the core of this, and is probably the most distinguishable feature of the language.

In this talk, Avik Sengupta will provide a quick overview of Julia syntax, and then dive into multiple dispatch to discover how it provides the ability to create fast and expressive numerical code. We will see how multiple dispatch provides a solution to the ""expression problem"".

Avik Sengupta has build risk and trading systems in Java for investment banks for over a decade. Four years ago he discovered Julia, and hasn’t looked back since. He is a major Julia contributor and the maintainer of various Julia packages.